Hi Piero
I come on holiday near you once a year (for last 6 years) in my 1985
Transporter, to my wife's family home near Bardi in the Italian Mountains.
We often go through La Spezia and on to Forte Dei Marmi to the beach.

This year I took some photos of the local ambulance in Bardi (Italy) VW
Transporter of course, frosted windows, stretcher, lights the lot.
Unfortunately it had been in a front and rear end smash and they replaced it
with a Talbot/Fiat van.  Also on the road from
Viareggio we stopped at some lights and saw this gorgeous white Bay window
A/c transporter it looked straight out of the showroom - I was so smitten I
missed the lights turning green!

Keep in touch we could meet up next year and have our own VW meeting.

David Clark (UK)
1985 VW Autosleeper VHT 1.9 2WD
www.soft.net.uk/vwt2oc
(see members rides)
1960 Humber Super Snipe Estate 3L
www.humberonia.freeserve.co.uk
1985 Fiat Uno 1.1L automatic (wife's)

----- Original Message -----
From: Piero Padroni <vanagon@HOTPOP.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: 22 November 1999 23:29
Subject: Italian Vanagon

> Hi boys,
> thank you all for your welcome!
> I use this mail to reply to all.
> I live in Genoa (Genova, the city where Colombo was born), in the north of
> Italy. Genoa is placed in the region of Liguria, a good wine district!
> I saw a Vanagon with a Canadian license plate on last August in
Carcassonne
> but in that moment I was in the car of a friend. So after parking a came
> back to see the vanagon and to take a photo, but it wasn't yet there. I'm
> collecting Vanagons photos and related internet links because I'm very
> enthusiast of that car.
> I bought mine from a private here in Genoa five years ago. It's a 2WD,
> green, 9 seats, 1600 diesel, the simplest people carrier version (kombi)
> but I worked a lot to improve it: I added anti-noise material in the
> lateral panels, an auxiliary heater under the rear bench, panels on the
> roof, new radio system and a lot of other works...now I know my Vanagon
> better than my pockets!
> Now I'm thinking about to buy a new one......a new "used" one, but I'm not
> yet sure if it will be a Syncro or a Multivan. I'm a little astonished
> because the Vanagon is more famous in America than in Italy, so it isn't
> simple to find a good one here.
> Regarding Italian sites, I actually don't have anyone of them in my 35
> Vanagon bookmarks!!
> I was thinking about to do a new one, but why? There is VANAGON.COM that
is
> the best!
> bye,
> Piero.
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> Piero Padroni
> Genova ITALY
> '84 Vanagon 1.6D (green)
> e-mail: padroni@lycosmail.com
>            vanagon@hotpop.com
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